P: Generative Remove Feedback (Lr Classic & Lr Eco)

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@henke51366242: "I keep trying to remove a post and a person within a simple background (e.g. post with clear blue sky background or person on a bridge) yet the removed object remains as a ghost image. ... I updated that AI settings on that photo but the problem persists." 

After clicking Remove, make sure the Opacity slider is set to 100:

Applying Remove on top of AI masking (e.g. a Sky mask, corrected by doing Update AI Settings) and Opacity sliders set to less than 100 are the primary causes of ghost images. But if this doesn't help, then rather than play twenty questions, share the original photo and your develop settings here. In Library, select the photo and do the menu command Metadata > Save Metadata To File. Then upload photo file (and if it's raw, its .xmp sidecar file) to Wetransfer, Dropbox, Google Drive, or other free service and post the sharing link here.

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@Anna35287185zjd4: "it stopped working for me after updates. Not removing any objects, never. I tried multiple photos, deleting small things, results are useless now. It wasn't the case in the past."

After clicking Remove, make sure the Opacity slider is set to 100:

Many people have reported that the updates changed their Opacity sliders.

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@Neil Waving: "Why is Lightroom telling me that I'm not conected to the internet when I definitely am connected?"

Sometimes firewalls and anti-malware / anti-virus utilities incorrectly block some network requests from LR. Try these troubleshooting steps:

- Restart the computer.

- Temporarily disable all the firewall / anti-malware on your computer. If that solves the problem, then add a specific exclusion for LR to the firewall's rules.

- Connect to another network, preferably one serviced by a different ISP. E.g. a Wifi connection of a neighbor, a coffee shop, work, or your phone's hotspot. Sometimes the routers in these networks block LR's requests, especially in authoritarian countries like China.

- Try relaunching the Finder -- start Finder, click the Finder menu, and do Quit Finder. Someone reported that this solved this problem for him.

Please let us know which of these work and which don't.

@mrlenz: "the generative AI remove tool rarely removes the object I select, but just changes its structure to be more cartoonish."

See this article for how to remove objects more reliably:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

Most complaints about Remove are addressed in the article. But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot), so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly every of the several dozen problem photos posted here, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

Well because "removing something" is sort of a context dependent and subjective operation. That is why additional prompt is quite useful for such tool.

The result that you present is something that I would rather expect from a healing tool, though.

@lukasradek: "In Lightroom Classic, there should be some sort of prompt to guide the AI generative remove.."

Photoshop has Generative Fill, which allows you to provide prompts. A couple others have requested here that LR offer something similar. Please add your constructive opinion and upvote this existing feature request:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-add-generative-fill/idi-p/13941532

"I am trying to remove a person from a photo of an auditorium full of people and it continuously tries to generate someone else in that place."

This is often possible with Remove but requires experience with Remove's rougher edges. See here for an example of removing a person from a crowded group of people:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/removing-disconnected-objects-select-everything-then-subtract.50579/

This example trips over a misfeature in the Remove selection UI, which if it were fixed, would have made the example much easier to accomplish. If this doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot), and I'll see how hard it is to use Remove. (This would provide more evidence either for Adobe to fix the Remove UI and/or for allowing generative-fill prompts.)

@Jose GZ: "I keep getting the message that there is no Internet connection"

Please post a full-resolution screenshot (not a phone pic) of the entire error message -- depending on the error, there's probably a workaround.

@henke51366242: "Occasionally though it leaves weird 'blobs' "

See this article for how to remove objects more reliably:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/generative-remove-replace/

Most complaints about Remove are addressed in the article. But if it doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot), so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly every of the several dozen problem photos posted here, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.

@Elyasaf_Rubinstein8068: "the tool has become completely non-functional. It is unable to remove anything, even small and simple objects. Instead, it frequently creates a strange cloud or shadow in the background of the object or blurs it without completely removing it, leaving a 'ghostly' remnant. "

Two typical causes of this:

1. The Opacity slider might be set to less than 100. (The slider only appears after clicking Remove.) Sometimes the user accidentally changes the slider, and sometimes LR appears to change it by itself.

2. Applying Remove on top of an AI mask, e.g. Sky. Do the menu command Settings > Update Ai Settings to recompute the mask.

If that doesn't help, please attach a full-resolution JPEG exported from the unmodified original photo (not a screenshot), so we and Adobe can see the issue in detail. With nearly every of the several dozen problem photos posted here, we've been able to show how to quickly remove the desired objects.